Rail-joint.



No. 884,796. PATENTED APR. 14:, 1908. 0. G. COSNER.

RAIL NT.

APPLIOATION I JUNE 1. 1901.

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ORA G. OOSNER, OF KENTS STORE, VIRGINIA.

RAIL-JOINT.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ORA G. CosNER, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Kents Store, in the county of Fluvanna and State of Virginia, have invented new and useful Improvements in RailJoi11ts, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is an improved railway or rail joint and comprises the meeting ends of rails, one having a longitudinal recess in its head and shoulders projecting laterally into said recess, and the other rail having a proj ection to enter such recess and provided with notches in its sides to receive such shoulders, as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings,Figure 1 is a perspective view of a rail joint formed by the meeting ends of a pair of rails constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view of the same on a plane indicated by the line 33 of Fig. 2.

The rail end a is provided in its head or tread portion with a longitudinal recess 1 of suitable length, depth and width and has shoulders 2 extending laterally into such recess from opposite sides thereof and which are out of line with one another. The rail end I) opposed to and joined with the rail end a has a rabbet 3 in its underside providing in the head or tread portion of said rait end a longitudinally extending arm 4 which corresponds in width and depth with the recess 1 and is adapted to fit in the same, and is provided in its sides with notches 5 to receive the shoulders 2 and slightly longer than such shoulders to compensate for expansion and contraction of the rails. The said arm 4 of the rail end I) overlaps the joint between such rail end and the rail end a so that as a wheel of a train .passes over said joint the weight of the train is applied equally to both of such rails, and neither is caused to move vertically independently of the other, and the stress is Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 1, 1907.

Patented April 14, 1908.

S erial No. 376,748.

distributed equally between such rails. Furthermore, such rail joints present a smooth unbroken surface on the heads of the rails so that the wheels pass such joints noiselessly.

It will be observed by reference to the drawings that the opposing ends of the longitudinal recess and the arm 4 are vertical and that the opposing ends of the shoulders 2 and notches 5 are also vertical so that the rail end I) may be readily lifted from the rail end a. By reason of the disposition of the shoulders 2 out of line with one another, the corre sponding notches 5 which receive them are prevented from weakening arm 4 to the extent which would be true if the shoulders were disposed in line. Furthermore, the disposition of the shoulders 2 at various points between the ends of the longitudinal recess causes such shoulders to strengthen the material forming the side walls of such recess at various points and renders the recessed head of the rail end a more durable.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is:

In combination with a rail having a longitudinal recess in its head at one end and shoulders extending laterally into said recess from opposite sides thereof and out of line with one another, the inner end wall of such recess and the ends of said shoulders being vertical, a rail having a rabbet in its under side at one end providin a longitudinal projecting arm to entersuc h recess and overlap the jointbetween such rails and such arm having notches in its sides to receive the said shoulders for the first mentioned rail, the end of said arm and the sides of such notches being also vertical.

In testimony whereof, I aff x my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ORA G. COSNER.

Witnesses OURTIs E. WATKrNs, ALLENE W. WATKINS. 

